The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Nov-Dec 1922)

16 THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS. November 11, 1922. THE KINEMA TRADE EXHIBITION. Proposal to ‘hold Great Show at Olympia in July Next. Year. HE kinematograph trade is, after an interval of close upon | eleven years, about to have .a great exhibition at Olympia next year if the proposuls made by International Trades LExhibitions, Ltd., ecie to fruition. The last exhibition, which took place over ten veors ago, undoubtedly greatly interested the vast bulk of the kinema-going public at that time, and it is feit that the time is now ripe for this industry to have an exhibition on broader and more up-to-date lines so that its vast ramifications can be recognised by the world at large. In a preliminary prospectus we have received from the promnoters it appears that the object is t> hold a great trade exhibition, appealing in its completeness to every section of the industry, and an exhibition to the public so organised that not only will the enthusiasm of present kinema-goers be increased, but what is of much more importance, the great appetite of the non-kinema section whetted. The vast floor space of Olympia is to be cut up into various sections, comprising advertising and printing, photography, furnishing and decorating, musical instru. ne ments, electrical production, catering, building, sanitation and accessories, mae and everything which goes to make up for a successful exhibition, Plans are now ready for floor space, and the promoters hope te get the support of the various associations. Conferences will be be!d throughout the exhibition and the subject of educational films will form one of the principal items at the conference hall. There ig not the slightest doubt that the time.is ripe. for an exhibition of this kind, and when one sees the personnel of the pe ople who are running it, the confidence ‘one has in: ate SUCCeBS is largely increased. Titeaticnal “trades Exhibitions, Ltd., have a. vety proud record in’ the suecessful running of exhibitions, having been responsible for all the Printing and Allied Trades Exhibitione, the Nation’s Food Mxhilition et Olmpyia, which was, euch’ a pronounced suceess, the Grocery Exhibition, and others in which they have been engaged for the past thirty years. We hope that the K.M.A., C.E.A. and K.R.S. will examine their propoxals with serious attention, as it would undoubtedly appear that, with such experienced imen behind it,” such an exhibition cannot fail to be a euccess. INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES AT LEEDS. A Labour Supporter of Tax Abolition—‘‘ Not Very _ Satisfactory Replies” Armistice Da at the from Liberals— Arrangements xchange. ‘(By our Leeds Correspondent.) HE membere of the business in Yorkshire do’ not allow Armistice Day to pass without due thought and tribute “to friends who fell in the war. “To-day (Saturday) the ‘Yorkshire Kinema Exchange Ex-Service men will parade in the (Tub Smokervom at the Exchange at 10-45 a.t., and there in veneral assembly will observe the Three Minutes’ Silence. In the evening a dinner will be held and the new Lord Mayor of Leeds (Alderman Frank Fountain), together with Captain James O'Grady, M.P., the Labour member for ast Leeds, will ‘be the guests of the evening. All tickets for the dinner were tuken up a full week back, but all Ex-Service men are invited to attend the social evening which is to be. held subsequently and ‘will commence at 8 p.m. ; Labour Leaders. The presence of the second Labour Lord Mayor of Leeds and of the Labour member for East Leeds will be a peculiarly pleasing event, for this will mark one of the new Chief Magistrate’s earliest functions, and it will also enable the trade to die tribute to Captain O'Grady who, as the Labour candidate for the vonstituency indicated at the forthcoming General Election, was the first of the Leeds candidates to agree to support the kinema campaign for the abolition of the Entertainments Tax. Liberals and Tax. Concerning the pregress of said campaign in the Leeds area, it is worthy of note that econ after the mass mecting at the pay Google _ Exchange, a deputation of ten of the leading members of the busness locally waited upon the Liberal candidates to request their support for the trade's claim. Among the speakers were Messrs. John Lambert and Arthur Cunningham, who laid etress on the fact that under the present system of taxation the big ‘circuits and many of the smaller theatres were making money for the Government in the form of tax revenue, whilst, through the operation of the impost, their own shareholders, whose had been invested in the ventures, were receiving no dividends. Facts and figures were quoted in support of the claims advaiced and reference made to the case of the P.C.T., with its several millions of capital, its huge returns to the money ‘Government in the form of collected tax. and its ‘inability to pay any dividend for two years past. Not Very Satisfactory. The Libernl candidates, headed is Sir William Middlebrook, M.P., duly responded, and took largely. the same attitude, the result of the deputation being the expression. of -the. view that the tax shsuld be one of the first te come off when the position of the country warranted it. They did not carmmit themselves to any definite undertaking concerning the tax, however, As already intimated, Captain J. O'Grady, M.P., has given his support to the campaign, and at the moment of writing it wee proposed to feel the Conservative pulse in, Leeds, -but uc definite result had been made ‘known, i